On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 21 August 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

INTERNATIONAL MURDER SOCIAL DEMOCRATS’ CIRCULAR. THE CAMPAIGN OF SUBMARINING. EXPERIENCE OF VERDUN. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Washington, August 20.

The Social Democrats of Germany secretly circulated one thousand copies of an anti-German submarine and anti-Government circular, wherein they denounce the U. boat war as international murder. The circular says: Crazy German Imperialistic agitators sturdily provoked a world war. Then they added the futile submarining in the Spring of 1915, our braggarts cracking jokes and threatening to starve England by the submarines. This was utter foolishness. A blockade would require one hundred submarines for every dozen Germans able to build them; even then, the doubtful campaign culminated in sending hundreds of women ana children to a grislydeath in the Lusitania, causing a world-wide cry to horror. The Government promises the Germans victory, but it is more likely wo will repeat the experience ot Verdun, where more than one hundred thousand Germans were driven to their death in order to take a couple of unimportant positions.